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Dreev moves into joint lead, IM Norm for
Akshat Khamparia
BY
R.R.Vasudevan, FIDE Arbiter
 When
the going gets tough, the tough gets
going - goes the old adage. That's what
top seed Grandmaster Alexey Dreev
showed, grinding GM Pablo Lafuente to
defeat, in the tenth and penultimate
round of the 2nd International SCS
Grandmaster Chess tournament at Hotel
Swosti Premium, Bhubaneswar.
The crucial win with black pieces, takes
Dreev on top of the table with 8.0
points, along with GMs Alexandrov,
Kravtsiv Martyn and IM Adhiban Baskaran.
 Indian
Senior National Champion and
International Master B Adhiban defeated
higher rated German GM Thomas Luther and
moved into shared the lead with eight
points. The win propels Adhiban to a top
board meeting in the final round against
Alexey Dreev. A fighting draw against
the Russian veteran would give the young
Indian his second Grandmaster Norm.
To have an idea, as to how long Dreev
has been a top flight player in world
chess, one needs to go back two decades,
to the year 1990, when Alexey Dreev
played the World Championship Candidates
quarterfinal against Viswanathan Anand
at Madras, and Adhiban was born two
years later. Surely, a battle of youth
versus experience, Adhiban versus Dreev.
In another upset IM Praveen Kumar
prevailed over Kazak Grandmaster Anuar
Ismagambetov in a Nimzo Indian game full
of tactics. Earlier, FIDE Master Akshat
Khamparia completed his third and final
norm holding IM P Karthikeyan to a draw.
C Praveen Kumar – Anuar Ismagambetov
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O
5.Nge2 d5 6.a3 Be7 7.cxd5 exd5 8.b4 c6
9.Ng3 Re8 10.Bd3 Nbd7 11.O-O b5 12.f3
Nb6 13.Bc2 a5 14.Rb1 axb4 15.axb4 Ra7
16.e4 dxe4 17.fxe4 Bg4 18.Qd3 Rd7
19.Nce2 g6 20.h3 Be6 21.Qf3 Nc4 22.Bg5
Kg7 23.Nf4 Rxd4 24.Bxf6 Bxf6 25.Nfh5
gxh5 26.Nxh5 Kf8 27.Nxf6 Nd2 28.Qh5 Nxf1
29.Qg5 Ke7 30.Ra1 Rc4 31.Ra7 Bd7 32.Nxd7
1-0
Top board results (Round 10):
Martyn Kravtsiv (Ukr,8) drew with Anton
Kovalyov (Arg,7.5), Alexey Dreev (Rus,8)
bt Pablo Lafuente (Arg,7), Maxim Turov
(Rus,7.5) drew with Pavel Maletin
(Rus,7.5), Dmitry Kokarev (Rus,7.5) drew
with Dmitry Bocharov (Rus,7.5), Aleksej
Aleksandrov (Blr,8) bt Hera Imre Jr
(Hun,7), B Adhiban (Ind,8) bt Thomas
Luther (Ger,6.5), Nurlan Ibrayev
(Kaz,7.5) bt Evgeny Vorobiov (Rus,6.5),
Simonian Hrair (Arm,7.5) bt Ramnath
Bhuvanesh (Ind,6.5), Sergey Kasparov
(Blr,7) drew with Vaibhav Suri (Ind,7),
Shreyansh Daklia (Ind,7) drew with
Attial Czebe (Hun,7), GV Sai Krishna
(Ind,7) drew with Ponnuswamy Konguvel
(Ind,7), Rustam Khusnutdinov (Kaz,7) bt
Swayams Mishra (Ind,Ori,6), Praveen
Kumar (Ind,7) bt Anuar Ismagambetov
(Kaz,6), Iuldachev Saidali (Uzb,7) bt
Shyam Nikil (Ind,6), Sriram Jha
(Ind,6.5) bt S Nitin (Ind,6.5), MR
Lalith Babu (Ind,7) bt Padmini Rout
(Ind,Ori.6), Bitan Banerjee (Ind,6.5)
drew with Deepan Chakkravarthy
(Ind,6.5), Swayangsu Satyapragyan
(Ind,Ori,6.5) drew with VAV Rajesh
(Ind,6.5).Gevorg Harutjunyan (Arm,7) bt
Abu Sufian Sahkil (Ban,6), Anwesh
Upadhyaya (Ind,Ori,7) bt Arjun Tiwari
(Ind,6), Akshat Khamparia (Ind,6.5) drew
with P Karthikeyan (Ind,6.5), Debasish
Das (Ind,Ori,6.5) drew with Sayantan Das
(Ind,6.5), Mohammad Javed (Ban,6.5) drew
with K Rathnakaran (Ind,6.5),
Sundararajan Kidambi (Ind,6.5) bt GB
Joshi (Ind,5.5).
Published on
31st May, 2010
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